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Grove Wins Case Over Rival Press
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In*bne of the most bitter publishing fights of the year, them to bits and the tragedy Grove Press filed suit in the Supreme Court of the State of our ape is explained. ! of New York, charging that the New American Library of
Hi« book was promptly een World Literature, Inc., publisher of the expurgated paper-sored — not for its pol.tieal and back edition were misleading readers in their advertising.
IT-1 ,dTV ^ •Utrf,°r h“ I Th' N Y State Supreme Court agreed with Grove Prea of sexual term, .nd expre«.o„« an(J ru|t(J ^ N7W AmerlL.an ubrary mUft uk*., lts
, • *■ f ¡»bridged version ot the 'Lady” as "expurgated." The
Ci ‘ no. u»e sex ^ American Library pubiutiing House limited its agieement,
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Piace'* and "Mike Hammer"1} Grove charged, and was declared right in its accj.
___Hi passages on sexual love are satlon by the court, tiia!, the New American Library, “in
gf. sifcn;f:cant; an important part of order to take advantage of the public awareness of and a h s theme, of his ideas When the public demand for the full, definitive and unexpurga.t-eenaors carelessly took out pas- ecj e{jjtion of Lady Chatterley\s Lover.” has reissued large numbers of newly printed copies of its abridged version m a new and eye-catchin? cover and u seeking to mLlead and deceive the public into believing that said abridged edition is the iuil. definitive and unexpurgated edition." Grove and the New American Library waged a pef-
-ares at random which con: j tailed references to 'physical love, they destroyed his ideas his. theme and finally his book.
For those who read the »bridged version, I call to »hem |
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* sev* in hi» let-, >as been excluded which con-tie old. familiar, j irglo-Saxon ^r»rd' ki»o*‘ but which o( censorship pre know or any pas-•set”bes tlr conn.-
New American Library, before the ruling, sent out documents proving that their edition was approved by the
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in the to forget it entirely. That edition ’ sonal pubiic relations war with new-releases streaming in-
tarrif «***. * . onlv v e* to destroy the original, to the editorial offices, at least twice a day. %
Sir Ch'fond — ppro1\v*£ pny- ! — its intent and its reason for
cally by the war. paralyzed being.
€r.\ i hv hi* trac tion — is Oal.v Wv reading ^I.ady C1»at- r _ . . _ ...
, • * . . . ..... ‘ Lawrence Estate (Laurence Polhnfer. Lawrences literary
.r^*^r.t and even surgest* to terleys Lover m its complete „ . , ° /■
hav% a \ err ion can the i«ader see the documentation) and said that there s was the only
rhoeen linnet who wrote of England American unexpurgated edition in existence.
r heir as he saw it tried, almost ere- Grove accused the Library of cashing in on their ef-
ativelv beaten and yet bustling forts and expenses, "doing it in a way which is dishone.il inside with a momentous ener- both in terms of legal precedent and in terms of common
gy waiting to he released. . | morality.” They demanded that copies of the New Ameri-
can Library edition now for sale in stoies be provided with stickers plainly indicating the version of the D. H. Lawrence novel is abridged and not complete.
After Uie final ruling. New American Library was
forced to admit that their edition was the American, abridged edition, frowned on personally by Lawrence, but
’• H< warts an heir to re*ain tlie Ch«itlerlcy poii-
tion. but he know« that he can->f sex«.at inter- not M'tpiy or>e himself.
•v«ge whidi at t I iO CHat**rlry fcteaiaa
te tl»e mjtien prepnant by Game^eepe- Meiiers
ar.d hope«, at the eni of the
Laurences third . edition of 'Lady Chatterley’a Lover’’ — i e«fW >■1.' uOIijc. »lie (U »-~i t*r «up — SI ye»« too late on by . , , . „ „
- -'H »» or .I hi. thefne — ttie flri'« et.«»r. ,t, »tri.il . | Th»y agreed to label their future editions, -abridged"
■ ?. w. -ne and n«; .r . mw in» -tag'on I. m, br‘.«lf at my timid f*n »nd »ere in the process of suppling .ticket to put on «toe*
a« Si ^ormfraph».. . u! s. pnstni — to. ei»*wn. Ind it * beait) wekowr , copie* u